Then that's all she would be - River's consciousness in a different body, with no reason whatsoever to suspect that her transplanted consciousness gives her new body remarkable longevity or physical toughness.
It seems rather cruel to make her a Dalek, since she apparently didn't even know. From her pov she was on a spaceship and obsessed with souffle.Dalek Clara was one of those lives. There was no retconning involved with Clara's running about, and the episodes still stand as they are.
I think you may be the first person I've ever encountered online who admits to liking that episode. The monsters were ludicrous, but I loved the guest stars. Richard Briers played Tom in the Good Neighbors sitcom, one of the old women played Daisy in Keeping Up Appearances, and the leader of the Blue Kangs was/is married to Mark Strickson (Turlough).Paradise Towers should never be considered a guilty pleasure: it's my favourite of the Seventh Doctor era.
I think part of the problem is in the UK, Doctor Who is considered a children's show. In North America it's considered a show more for teenagers and adults. It would be nice if the show writers tried to inject a bit more adult-sounding technobabble (ie. I never had a problem with "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow").I'm not sure of the argument here, beyond the fact they're all brilliant lines. This is a show that depends on being fantastical and imaginative, and shouldn't be held down by technicalities. It is trying to tell you a story.
The thing is, we've seen those old episodes, and for me that was over 30 years ago. I've seen them numerous times in most cases, and even have some of the dialogue memorized. I can separate the "Clara was here, too" nonsense, because I know how the original story was intended to be presented and what the audience was supposed to think about it. But you take a new fan, someone whose first Whovian experience was Eccleston onward, and when they see the Classic-era episodes, they'll be thinking, "Oh, yeah - Clara was here as well, saving everybody's <posterior>".As you like. As far as I'm concerned the earlier Doctor's weren't aware of her involvement except as much as a brief idea in their mind, and still won through with their genius and ingenuity. It doesn't require that much of a shift.
It just really, profoundly annoys me that they'd show a clip of Castrovalva and have Clara in the web where Adric was. That was an intense story - the Doctor was having trouble regenerating, Adric was acting strange, but was later revealed to have been captured by the Master and forced to work against the Doctor... I'm really not happy by even the merest suggestion that some decades-in-the-future Companion was also there.And for my part: I'm not that fond of Clara's "Impossible Girl" storyline. I just don't see it being a big deal with regards to the original stories
Mark Gatiss said:Capaldi's incarnation is "a more dangerous, more urgent Doctor. It has a side of crazy"
That's not true at all. How many of them can boast that they have the most successful series of theology threads on a computer gaming forum?All of my contemporaries have gone on to do far more impressive stuff than I have!
Remember, the Smith Doctor always lies.Wait... 2,000 years? Am I misremembering something? I thought Smith Doctor said something around 1,400 years or so.
That's not true at all. How many of them can boast that they have the most successful series of theology threads on a computer gaming forum? :good job:
Remember, the Smith Doctor always lies.
Yeah, he had 900 years on Trenzalore, plus a good 200 years in the arc of season 6. The 8th Doctor had 600 years on Orbis, but he could have lived longer since we don't have a great frame of reference for the events and his life or which ones of them actually "count" for purposes of the show. And then the War Doctor clearly ages a lot visibly in between Night and Day, but there's no clear timeframe provided, and Time Lord aging seems to work weirdly, since the Eleventh doesn't age at all during his 200 years of avoiding death but gets significantly older when stuck on Trenzalore. Perhaps it's affected by exposure to the vortex. The best explanation we'll get comes from Day of the Doctor, when the Eleventh Doctor admits he's too old to remember if he's lying about his age anymore.And also he aged a lot of centuries in his final episode - he may have been the longest lived incarnation by the end. Plus, perhaps the Capaldi Doctor has had a few centuries of his own before uttering that line. You never know with the Doctor.